Word: hards
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Small businesses already hit hard by the recession may soon undergo another pummeling, this time by the 2009 H1N1 virus, the frightening new subtype of a strain that's been around for decades...
HRSA researcher Michael Kogan, the lead author of the study, admitted that it was hard to explain these vanishing cases of autism - which is by definition a lifelong condition. Yet nearly 40% of children who were diagnosed with autism, according to parents, no longer had the condition. It may be that such children received the autism label "to facilitate services for other conditions such as developmental delays," Kogan said. Or it could be that children were only tentatively classified as having ASD when they were very young and then the disorder was ruled out. (Read "Inside the Autistic Mind...
...help is coming." The chance of finding survivors in the landslides triggered by the quake in that region will be very slim. Still, the Swiss team prepares the dogs for the journey to Pariaman by dunking the dogs in some water to cool them off before they begin their hard work. For long-haired golden retrievers, border collies and other breeds, the torrid Sumatran air is far tougher to endure than the flight over from Switzerland...
...most voters, the biggest difference over the past 16 months has been the global economic crisis, which has hit Ireland particularly hard and ended the era of the 'Celtic Tiger'. Economic uncertainty helped persuade many voters that Europe offers a safe haven...
...none of these new positions and structures will begin operating until the treaty is finally ratified. Still, for now, officials in Dublin, Brussels and other European capitals who have worked so long and hard on the treaty will be raising their glasses to a hearty Irish...